My first walnut bowl.

This is five boards glued up. I glued a couple small boards on so I could attach it to my lathe but the screws I used were too long and I brain farted and now there are holes in the bowl. I figured it was a job for some epoxy and steel filings.

It’s for an old friend who want’s to give it to her sister, also an old friend. So I hope she likes it. I’m only charging her for the wood that I have in it. I need some practice on these bowls. This one broke off the glue mounting midway through the hollowing process and I had to reglue it which means re-turning it. It took most of the day, and three days prior just in gluing up.

In other words, a lot of work goes into one of these.

-- A positive attitude will take you much further than positive thinking ever will.

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It is a lot easier, and often cheaper, to use a chunk of wood instead of a glue up. But we can’t always find that big chunk! Overall a nice bit of work. A lot of learning going on I bet! I ‘once’ did the same mistakes with the screws.